Last Week's Dev Meet

[zCampaign]

Last week's Developer Meeting is what, in large part, triggered the creation of this thread. zOMG! is under threat of dying, yet very few people are aware of this.

Summary

zOMG!'s Development is under threat of being cut from Gaia's budget. While the current zOMG! would remain, without a Development team, it will get no updates, no fixes, and no Holiday Events, rendering it effectively dead, much like Towns.

The only remaining option to keep the Development Team together is to monetize zOMG!. What this means is that zOMG! has to start making money. And it has to make enough to support itself. If it cannot, without GaiaOnline to provide support, zOMG! will die, the Developers will be let go/reassigned, and everything we've fought for will be for nothing.  

[Emyre]

I'd just like to add that the amount of money needed is "very doable", in JK's words.
It's nothing to get too worried about.
But it's not something we can afford to ignore, either.

 

[The Hell Tutor]

What can we do anyway?  

[Emyre]

Hell_Tutor

What can we do anyway?

Buy stuff. D:<

 

[cnoisy]

wasn't there sometin about Gaia's core features? like the forums and stuff  

[Emyre]

cnoisy

wasn't there sometin about Gaia's core features? like the forums and stuff

What about them?

 

[cnoisy]

SykoCaster

cnoisy

wasn't there sometin about Gaia's core features? like the forums and stuff

What about them?

idk i think it was sometin about how they were gonna have to focus on the core features instead of zOMG!, and then a small argument went on bout how every1 thought that zOMG! was a core feature  

[Emyre]

cnoisy

SykoCaster

cnoisy

wasn't there sometin about Gaia's core features? like the forums and stuff

What about them?

idk i think it was sometin about how they were gonna have to focus on the core features instead of zOMG!, and then a small argument went on bout how every1 thought that zOMG! was a core feature

Existing zOMG! is, updating it is not.
So they'd rotate the servers.
But they wouldn't add any new content/fix any bugs.

...I believe.

 

[cnoisy]

SykoCaster

cnoisy

SykoCaster

cnoisy

wasn't there sometin about Gaia's core features? like the forums and stuff

What about them?

idk i think it was sometin about how they were gonna have to focus on the core features instead of zOMG!, and then a small argument went on bout how every1 thought that zOMG! was a core feature

Existing zOMG! is, updating it is not.
So they'd rotate the servers.
But they wouldn't add any new content/fix any bugs.

...I believe.

thats wat would happen if they just stopped working on it...ya, it would just stop getting updates, but it would still be there, but they also said that before anything bad could happen there were still some things they need to release like the expansion of bb and the coliseum, etc.  

[zomgloverly]

This is ******** dumb!
zOMG is the only reason I stay on this site, otherwise I'd just be another boring form site which in reality that's all it is.
And I know a lot of people who feel the same.
zOMG isn't like towns it and never will be.
I've only been playing zOMG for a year but I'm in love with it.
Good gold maker and I met some of my best buddies through zOMG.
What can we do?
I don't wanna see zOMG go D:

EDIT: Read the sticky.
I got 3 new people to play made a few new accounts myself and in January I'll have actual money coming in to get GC
ZOMG WILL NOT GO D:<

 

[Emyre]

_Lover-Loverly_

This is ******** dumb!
zOMG is the only reason I stay on this site, otherwise I'd just be another boring form site which in reality that's all it is.
And I know a lot of people who feel the same.
zOMG isn't like towns it and never will be.
I've only been playing zOMG for a year but I'm in love with it.
Good gold maker and I met some of my best buddies through zOMG.
What can we do?
I don't wanna see zOMG go D:

EDIT: Read the sticky.
I got 3 new people to play made a few new accounts myself and in January I'll have actual money coming in to get GC
ZOMG WILL NOT GO D:<

Sadly, Gaia doesn't see zOMG! as a retention feature, since people don't play regularly.
Even though the only reason they don't play regularly is because there isn't any new content to play.

 

[XGrimsterX]

Well i just have to say this, we all are having fun zOMG, the reason most of the ppl on Gaia is cuz of zOMG, if no zOMG no Gaia.
To the ppl who creating problem to zOMG, dont ruin the fun of the others cuz of $ (ik u ppl can find some other way's to this problem) and this time is were most ppl will come and hangout here... So dont cuz i love zOMG & Gaia too
(just saying)  

[Dexigone]

so to save zOMG! I have a plan, we buy a ton of powerups from the cash shop and host a powerup "bake sale"  

[Deacon Nuno]

zOMG needs several things to become more playable, and compel people to spend money on it:

- The ability to "mark" places in the world and instantly "recall" to them using a spellbook (an idea I stole directly from Ultima Online, by the way)

- The ability to open up a temporary "gate" to/from said location (again, from Ultima, an MMO I played for about 7 years)

- The ability to take people to your house in this, or a similar, manner

- The addition of player-run stores with player-crafted content

- A team of in-game "event mods" who can create daily "quest events" for people who find them.

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If some or all of those additions came to the game, you would see a marked improvement. Also, I think it could use more dungeons, better dungeon design, and more unique items in treasure chests.  

[Emyre]

Deacon Nuno

zOMG needs several things to become more playable, and compel people to spend money on it:

- The ability to "mark" places in the world and instantly "recall" to them using a spellbook (an idea I stole directly from Ultima Online, by the way)

- The ability to open up a temporary "gate" to/from said location (again, from Ultima, an MMO I played for about 7 years)

- The ability to take people to your house in this, or a similar, manner

- The addition of player-run stores with player-crafted content

- A team of in-game "event mods" who can create daily "quest events" for people who find them.

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If some or all of those additions came to the game, you would see a marked improvement. Also, I think it could use more dungeons, better dungeon design, and more unique items in treasure chests.

Event Quests, I can agree with.
I've been telling them to make a system for easy quest design for a while now.

Teleportation has been discussed, and is planned as a Power-up item.
Everything else, though, exists as part of Gaia.
We have Gaia Housing, which you can warp to.
We have a player-run Marketplace.